Lizzie Perrotte and Colin Wiggins compare portraits by two nineteenth century rivals. One is Eugene Delacroix’s painting Louis-Auguste Schwitter; the second is Madame Moitessier by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. One is beautiful, fashionable and sensitive, the other is ‘stately as a galleon’. But who will win?
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